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The story told in Brian Banks is unfortunately all too familiar. The eponymous biopic, directed by Tom Shadyac, chronicles the true story of the All-American football player who had committed to USC by his junior year, then had his life upended when he was falsely accused and convicted of rape, to being exonerated…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Aldis Hodge, star of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning film Clemency, has landed a role in Blumhouse-Universal’s The Invisible Man which is inspired by the studio’s classic monster character. Hodge joins Us star Elisabeth Moss and Storm Reid in the Leigh Whannell feature…

The ATX Television Festival closed with a screening of City on a Hill ahead of its June 16 premiere on Showtime (you can also watch it here). Series creator Chuck MacLean, showrunner Tom Fontana, executive producer Jennifer Todd as well as stars Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge and Jill Hennessy were on hand to talk about the…

As it sometimes does with new shows, Showtime has posted the first episode of its Kevin Bacon-Aldis Hodge period drama City on a Hill online for free. The series premieres June 16 on the premium cable net, but you can watch it above. Created, written and executive produced by Chuck MacLean and based on an original…

Dexter alum James Remar and ER‘s Gloria Reuben have been set to guest star on multiple episodes of City on a Hill, Showtime's upcoming drama series executive produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Jennifer Todd. Production is underway in New York and Boston on the 10-episode series that stars Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hod…

Clemency director-writer Chinonye Chukwu and the film’s stars Alfre Woodard, Danielle Brooks, Richard Schiff, and Aldis Hodge are today’s guests for the Stella Artois and Deadline Sundance Series. They spoke to Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro about making of the film and more. As Chukwu’s second feature, the story…

EXCLUSIVE: Bleecker Street has partnered with ShivHans Pictures for the release of Brian Banks, the true story about an All-American football player who went to prison for a crime he did not commit. Directed by Tom Shadyac, the pic premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, where it picked up the Audience Award. It…

EXCLUSIVE: The Los Angeles Film Festival is on the move from June to this month, where it opens on Thursday with the world premiere of the music documentary Echo in the Canyon. Over the course of the next week, the festival will be offering an array of cinematic programming of all kinds including several more world…

The Last O.G. star Tracy Morgan and Aldis Hodge have come aboard the Taraji P. Henson-led comedy What Men Want, the gender-flipped iteration of the 2000 Mel Gibson-starring film, What Women Want from Nancy Meyers. Adam Shankman is directing the pic which centers on a female sports agent (Henson) who has been…

Alfre Woodard has signed on to topline prison drama Clemency, opposite Aldis Hodge and Richard Schiff. The pic hails from writer/director Chinonye Chukwu (alaskaLand) and centers on a prison warden (Woodard) who confronts her own psychological demons as she develops an emotional connection to the death row inmate…

Kevin Bacon (The Following) and Aldis Hodge (Underground) are set to headline Showtime's drama pilot City on a Hill, executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Michael Cuesta (Homeland, American Assassin) is directing and executive producing. He replaces Gavin O'Connor, who initially was set for the role but…

EXCLUSIVE: Melanie Liburd, who co-stars on Netflix’s Gypsy, has been set to join the cast of Brian Banks, a biopic starring Aldis Hodge and Greg Kinnear. The Tom Shadyac-directed biopic tells the story of Banks (Hodge), an All-American high school football player committed to USC whose life was upended in 2002 when he…